The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
OH THE WING.

and peas.
The tony seaside bycicle suit is of white
corduroy.
Chirosophy is the craze at Long Branch
at present.
When an Englishmsn "gets left he is
said to be 'in the cart"
Figs measuring nine and one-haH inches
in circumference are grown in Florida.
One of the recent discoveries is that cleo.
tricity may be extracted from potsto.bugs.
There are more opium. smokers in Sacra-
mento than in any other place in CaIifor-
| mia.
The statutes OF Washington and Henry
! Clay, in Richmond, Va, are both in swsl-
| low-tails.
a recent advertisement in an eastern
paper reads: "Wanted-a nurse to mind
children"
The use OF the corset is traced back six
centuries, and it was then, as now, an OBJ
| ject of satire.
Whooping cough is killing the children
| eight or ten day.
The editor of the Plum Greek (Neb.l
| Gazette has bat one arm and'one leg, and
| has just broken the arm.
A Harvard student il doing duty at Sar-
atoga as a hotel waiter and a special CORES
| pendent OF Boston paper.
Long Branch lack men are said 20 We
| greater s4indlers than their Niagara Fa1
brethren ever thought OF being.
Oregon imports much OF the butter she
| consumes, though there is no better dairy
country in the world than Oregon.
Agricultural implements have been in
such great demand in Manitobs that nearly
every dealer has completely sol / out.
"What is an epistle2" asked a Sunday
school teacher OF her class. "The wife of
an apostle" replied the young hopeful.
Every oneof ne twenty-six tramps ar
rested in c. oi. al Park, New York, one
dsy recently, Nrls under the age OF sixty
years.
1t is shown official returns that the
production OF anthracite coal in PennsyI-
vania the last fiscal year was nearly thirty
six millions of tons.
The total number of postmasters receiy-
| ing less than 81 900 per anum is 505S2.
OF that number 4S,003 are paid between
800 aud $3.50 year.
Steel-framed cabs are now being manu-
featured in EDgland, with a view to light.
ness and greater durability than if wood
were used for the purpose.
Leonard Stevens, lad at 0roville, CAL,
is serving 100 days sentence in jail for
| cutting CAl tue 0oEO Oh q pea
fowl belonging to neighbor.
Great Britain is suffering from a great
| drought this year. tn rivers are drying
up and thousands of fish are lying dead on
the bottoms of dried up streams.
The daughter of Geo. W. Clark, of New
port, Ind, is i've years and three months
old. She weighs 1857 pounds, and moas.
ures three feet around the waist.
~ oro- 80 .,;1l;o- -.
recently offered at public auction in Nor
way. 1t is hardly Surprising that there
was no serious offer for it, and the estate
was withdrawn.
Whitman county, Washington Territory,
has the smallest woman living. She re-
sides three miles from Pine City, is
twenty seven ears old, twenty-nine i1-
ches high, and weighs thirty. three pounds.
A lady being questioned in court the
other day as to why she had changed her
| religion stated she had done so because,
being separated from her husband, she de-
termined to avoid meeting him in the
| next world.
Grasshoppers are devastating the fields of
Algeria in a terrible manner. An attempt
to destroy the eggs proved useless. In one
district gallons so 600 have been col
lected and burned. This represents the
destruction of Z, 250. 000. 600 insects.
A water rat weighing probably mora
| than two pounds was seen to go to brood
! of chickens and seize one. The hen chased
the rat and desperate fight ensued, the
hen eventually succeeding in killing its
foe and rescuing the chicken. The latter
appeared little the worse for its strange ex-
perience.
An elderly maiden lady living near Sid
cup wrote to the Lord Chamberlain, saying
that she believed every class of of the
Queens subjects would be represented at
Westminster abby except one, "the old
maids" and she osked for two tickets aud
the honor of representing the 'old maids"
wishing to have lady TREND accompany
her. She got ticket for herself.
Ovorgaiters are again fashionable. 1t is
correct to have several shades, according
to the part OF the country you are going
to for the summer. To be sure the shades
are correct, send to the clerks of the
various hotels you intend to stop at for
samples of the dust found on the road in
front OF the hotel. Take these samples to
your shoemaker and have the overgaiters
I made to match.
A valuable mare in England recently
gave birth to foal. a faint line indicst-
ed tine position of the eyelids, but the ani-
NAL was apparently without eyes. An in
cjsion across each eyelid was made, aud
| the IOdl 1mmeOlaL6ly us eyes were OpS0Su
recognized its dam, Duting a period of
twenty.three years the veterinary surgeon
hes not net with such a case.
The remains of a cemetery belonging to
the age of the Gauls have rencently been
discovered in Paris, in the old Faubourg
st. Geremain, at the corner of Rocroi and
Bellechass streets. Fifty-two tombs have
been found, with skeletons, most OF which
are skeletons of women and children. Only
twelve are skeletons of men. Many weap-
ons and implements have also been IN.
earthed; swords lances, shields and bronze
and iron instruments of all descriptions.
The feature OF the Fourth OF July Gale.
bration at Norwood. N. c., was the pres
! ence of Mr.. William Whitley, native OF
Stanley County. he was born In 1775. and
and in 1903, when SO years old. he married
! his wife, who lived until 1881, when she
! died, aged 10f years. Uncle Billy, as he
is called, sat on the platform and wa:
; Grated over, and closed the exercises by
firing off an old flint-loek musket that
J had been carried in the Revolutionary
! | war.
friend of Sir Edward LandseeF, who
5 accompanied him to Kensington Museum
q on the first occasion Of its exhibition by
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